Putting a string on a single line

Often times text is written on multiple lines for the sake of clarity. Sometimes these lines need to be consolidated to a single line. This happens to me a lot with SQL queries that end up needing to be in a config file somewhere. I'll write them out all pretty so they make sense (as much sense as some SQL can make...) and then I'll need to consolidate that down to one line. Here is a python one liner that does just that, given a string named mystr

" ".join([x.strip() for x in mystr.split("\n")])

Don't make me slap you, Beavis

Every single time somebody asks "how hard can it be?" or "why is the estimate so big?", I want to smack them. Hard. Some folks at 37signals were kind enough to offer an example that answers these sorts of questions when asked about a seemingly simple feature.

I applaud the fine folks at 37signals for publishing things like this.